Since then I’ve run acquisitions, sales, renovations, relocations, company set-ups and a fair number of situations that don’t fit in any category, for people who live in the United States, Asia, the Pacific and elsewhere in Europe. The ones I work best with have two things in common: they are building something, and they hand over the whole. An artist preparing a catalogue and looking for a gallery. A physician buying her first apartment in Paris from San Francisco. Founders on the other side of the world creating a French company that no bank would open an account for. We opened it anyway.
What I like about this work is the relationships. My first clients are still my clients. One of them came for a purchase, stayed for a sale and a renovation, and called me again years later when his life changed and he needed a place within a week. That’s the job as I understand it: not a transaction, a person on the ground for as long as you have something here.
Two things you should know before you call. I don’t give legal, tax or investment advice. I choose the people who do, and I make sure they talk to each other. And I say no early: if I’m not the right fit, you’ll know in twenty minutes, along with the name of someone who is.
I work from Paris, in English and French, with a small team and a lot of documentation. Everything we do on your property ends up in one file, kept alive for as long as you own it.
The name comes from canopée, the canopy: the upper layer of a rainforest, where the trees meet and where most of the forest’s life happens. Below, each tree grows on its own. Above, everything connects. That is where we work.